St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-01
THEY ARE MISGUIDED.
The National Indian Association
Opposing the Dawes Bill.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The opposition
of the National Indian association to the
Dawes Dill is proving very effective The
members of this association are philanthrO-
pists and believe the poor Indian should be
nurtured. Not one of them had the pleas
ure of living in Minnesota. Iowa or Dakota
when the Sioux were careering over the
pralrieS blazing their way with smoking
| ruins. murdered women and children, tor
tured pioneers and devastated fields Not
one of them knows of the New UIm massa-
ere, except by hearsay or desultory
| reading. Your correspondent, with
thousands of others, has vivid
recollection of the scenes enacted in Stearns
| and Pope counties, when Sank Centre was
Stockade. and its little garrison the saliva
| ton of hundreds of lives. For years after
the commission of those horrible atrocities,
| the Sioux were unsafe outside of their
| reservation. All the learned doctors of
divinity and philanthrophistS in tine world
could not have compiled laws strong enough
and mustered officers numerous enough to
have prevented the immediate killing of
any one of the demons who might be seen off
| of his reservation. Time has dulled the
memory of those days, even amongst the
old settlers, but the history is made. They
| who passed through the terror of those
weeks wildly remember them, whenever
the meretriciOuS pretenSions of humanita-
rian philanthrophiStS are heard in behalf of
| the poor Indian. Yet, these gentlemen
are
LEARNED, EARNEST, SINCERE,
| and worthy of respectful hearing. They
appear before the committees of the senate
| and house and make their arguments in be-
half OF the worthless race now occupying
| millions of acres of Dakota's faireSt lands.
Their Influence should not be ignored and
| pooh poohed. They are injuring the pros
poets Of the Dawes bill for the opening of
the reservation. 1t is not true that Rev.
Byron Sunderland, the pastor of the church
Whereat the president wOrshipS is person.
| ally endeavOring to influence the president
any more than are the other members of
| the association. 1t may DE further said
that if Mr.. Sunderland were to undertake to
influence the president. by reason of his
relations to the church, the reverend gentle
man would simply injure himself and the
cause he advocates. Should the bill pass
the house, as it has passed the senate, it
will most likely receive the signature of the
| president. Mr.. Cleveland will be more in
clined to listen to the people of Dakota
through their representative men than to
any body of eastern lovers or the Indian,
no matter how numerous nor how honorable
they may be. The Indian association is as
greatly opposed to the severalty bill. as to
the Dawes bill. They are imbued with the
idea that the poor Indians are being plum
dered of their land without cause, and with
out benetiting the dominant race. They do
not have complete understanding of the
matter, and hence are reasoning from
DEFECTIVE PREMISES.
But they are sincere, eloquent and dill
gent. No matter how many times the map